Children of the '90s learned the importance of environmentalism from the animated antics of Captain Planet and the Planeteers. Adults received a more formal education by a man equally important and compassionate about Earth: Al Gore. Though lacking i...

Seat belts everyone! Time for an educational field trip on The Magic School Bus back to the 1990s. The clunky technology of the '90s paved the way for innovations in today's classrooms, and growing up in that time period was an adventure. Children to...

Remember the days when you threw an Ace of Base cassette tape into your Walkman for a good ol' fashioned jam sesh? Kids these days can't relate. In a new video from The Fine Brothers, kids take a look at the archaic device that is a Walkman -- and sa...

Jon Hamm's name may now be synonymous with smooth, suave and dapper. But that wasn't always the case. Back in the day, you couldn't pay a girl to go out with him. Seriously. Footage has been unearthed of the actor almost 20 years ago when he appeared...

Leonardo DiCaprio may not be an Oscar winner, but this Leo-inspired Instagram account sure deserves an award. An artist, who wishes to remain unnamed, decided it was high-time to bring back baby-faced '90s Leo into our lives. We agree -- and what bet...

In case you missed it, someone drew your favorite '90s cartoon characters as really hot adults. Join YouTuber Lamarr Wilson as he takes a look at some of these photos, and tries not to completely ruin your childhood on this week's Socially Awkward. Y...

We may always remember Tommy Pickles as a baby, but he's a big boy now. So is Spinelli from Recess, Arnold from Hey Arnold! and the boys from South Park. (But they've always talked like adults, so that's not very difficult to imagine). Illustrator Is...

If you lived through the '90s, you likely jammed out to TLC's smash hit "No Scrubs" at least once. But you've probably never experienced it this way. Multi-talented multi-instrumentalist Elijah Aaron put a new twist on the popular '90s tune all by hi...

Most of us remember the '90s fondly. We remember coming home from school and flipping on Nickelodeon. We all laughed when some poor, unsuspecting contestant on a gameshow got covered in slime. We loved Doug, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Rug Rats ...

Now that the Furby is back, it might be time to resurrect a few other toys from the '80s and '90s. If they were good enough for us, they're good enough for this generation. After all, do kids really need these newfangled tablets and phones, or would ...

As we creep closer to 2014, we're also that much closer to a world where anything that happened in 1994 took place 20 years ago. We received a lot of amazing things in '94, from classic movies like The Lion King and Forrest Gump to hit songs like Rad...

If you walked into an Urban Outfitters this year, you already know -- the '90s returned in 2013 with full force. While the Internet's favorite decade has been slowly creeping back into pop culture for the last few years through nostalgic GIFs and cro...

There are gonna be a lot of happy '90s kids in the world today. One of the original pop boy bands, the Backstreet Boys, debuted their new music video "Show 'Em (What You're Made Of)" Tuesday on Facebook. The boys (or shall we say, men) tone things do...

Not every Facebook-worthy quote came from the philosophical minds of Gandhi or Oscar Wilde. Some were said by iconic characters, like Tommy Pickles. Kid's shows were deep in the '90s, but sometimes it's the simplest message that stays with you. If yo...

We're so excited. Elizabeth Berkley regaled Saved by the Bell fanatics with an epic throwback to her Jessie Spano days on Dancing With the Stars. The actress, and her DWTS dancing partner Val Chmerkovskiy, recreated the iconic scene from the 90s hit ...

Will Friedle -- otherwise known as Eric Matthews, the oldest kid on Boy Meets World -- has excellent taste in the classic '90s show. In a phone interview with Mashable, Friedle talked about his favorite episodes and shared a few memories about workin...

The crop tops, the neon colors, the ginormous cellphones -- the charm of Saved by the Bell lays squarely on its '90s-era shoulders. The Bayside High gang just would not be the same in 2013, especially Zack Morris and his epic antics. We found out how...

Twenty-year-old Ariana Grande has been touted as the Mariah Carey of the 2010s, mainly because of her four-octave range, and now it's as though Grande's '90s-esque music video only strengthens the similarities between the newbie and Mimi. In "Baby I,...

Kids today are too jazzed about video games and Angry Birds to understand what fun they missed in the good old days. Back in our day, we played with collectible cardboard circles and punched each other in the face with inflatable hand muffs. Come to ...

Break out your '90s orange puffy vest and get your frosted tips re-bleached. 'N Sync is reunited for a performance at this year's MTV VMAs, according to the New York Post. The iconic boy band tore up our hearts when we said "Bye, Bye, Bye" to them in...

The '90s were a very polarizing time for fans of pop music and slow panning close-ups of abs. During the decade, you either sided with team Backstreet or team N'Sync -- or, in very rare cases, team 98 Degrees. But what if you were forced to pledge al...

There are many reasons we love the Internet, but mostly it's because no matter how offbeat an idea may be, it has the potential to become a major hit. And today's coolest (read: oddest) Internet idea is Furby Living, a project by Swedish artist Willi...

First impressions count for a lot. You might think about that in your daily life now as you interview for jobs and go on first dates, but you learned the importance of that lesson when you were just a kid. After a summer apart, a killer back-to-schoo...

Mac vs. PC? iPhone vs. Android? Democrat vs. Republican? These are big decisions, people. But for a '90s kid, there was no decision more crucial than pledging allegiance to Nickelodeon or Disney Channel. Nickelodeon aired dozens of beloved series thr...

Get your L.A. Gears out, because Jesse and the Rippers of Full House fame are performing Friday on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. And if a new performance of "Forever" could air before the week is over, who's to say a live rendition of "Killer Tofu" i...

Technically, Pepper Ann might be frozen in time, forever too cool for 7th grade. But illustrator Celeste Pille likes to think Pepper Ann and her One Saturday Morning crew eventually graduated, moving on to bigger things and better clothes. Her drawin...

Prepare for a cringe-worthy tech flashback. Half the fun of watching '90s television shows is laughing at all of the outdated references, from the slang to the unfortunate hair styles. Even more amusing than the giant scrunchies and sunflower hats ar...

The East Coast cicadas, currently emerging by the billions, have spent the last 17 years underground, making today's world a bit of a shock for them. In 1996, Alanis Morissette was just a "Jagged Little Pill" and only 20 million Americans dialed up t...

It's finally happened. Kickstarter users have said "No thanks!" to a celebrity's film project. The crowdfunding campaign for the film Darci's Walk of Shame, which had Melissa Joan Hart attached to it, was cancelled Monday after raising only $51,605 f...

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